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Creative Director / Senior Art Director (Part time 3-4 days a week)

SEEN Group Values:

• Creativity

• Inclusivity

• Positivity

• Excellence

The Opportunity

This role is at the heart of the SEEN Works division working closely with our Divisional Director, Associate Beauty Director and design team to lead creative direction across our brands. You will partner with our Clients and team to provide the best creative and strategic solutions across our roster of world class Beauty Brands to originate ideas so inspiring they elevate perceptions of Beauty.

Your role will be fully integrated working across all internal teams to lead the development and delivery of creative content and experiences across all channels.

This is an opportunity to work across some of the world’s strongest Beauty brands so you will need to be an ambitious and commercially minded Creative Director.

The work you do will place us ahead of our competition and encourage our internal teams and clients to boldly pursue innovative ideas that translate into outstanding creative and experiences consumers will remember.

The role

• You will be working to set the creative vision and aesthetic agenda for our clients – both at a brand and campaign level.
• You will work collaboratively to translate strategy and insight into stand out creative concepts which transcend multiple channels.
• You will work across SEEN Group to deliver excellent creative solutions to meet client needs, in partnership with strategy, client services, production and other internal teams
• You will work with our clients and wider SEEN Group teams to understand the real business problems to solve with creative and cut through solutions.
• You will present and articulate visions, strategies and technologies to clients from marketing executives to Board level
• You will establish your own relationships with key clients. Actively work to unlock briefs from new and existing clients
• You will be responsible for developing creative solutions on communication, planning and pitches across brands and teams
• You are always thinking ahead, aligning your creative vision to the structure, vision and future of the business
• You will be responsible for design direction and lead vision / innovation workshop activities
• You will be responsible for Inspiring and leading the creative vision across Direct Reports and all SEEN Group team.
• You will be responsible for contributing to creative direction on new business pitches. Driving the process from start to finish, ensuring that we deliver first class creative work.
• Being a leader and advocate of the group creative process – ensuring the process is used efficiently and improved where there are challenges.
• To help grow the agency’s reputation and strive to develop work that wins awards and is stand out in Beauty.
• Leading multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines
• Evaluating and, if necessary, altering, the content of projects before completion

To succeed in this role you will demonstrate the following:

• Experience from within an integrated creative agency, ideally involved with Beauty accounts
• Experienced as a media-agnostic creative
• An innovative thinker who is always looking to challenge the work produced to ensure it is of exceptional quality
• Gravitas, a sharp thinker who is big picture savvy
• Instinctive problem solver with a love of complex problems and elegant solutions
• Confident, articulate and persuasive; someone who enjoys sharing and developing ideas.
• A confident and persuasive visual thinker, a skilled crafter and deliverer of presentations
• Highly collaborative and adaptive to working with all disciplines within the agency
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to push back on clients where appropriate

To learn more about SEEN Group visit seengroup.com* or follow us on Instagram *@seen_group

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday per year, plus additional days off at Christmas and New Year
• Monthly gym membership
• Hybrid Working – 2 office days a week
• 3 Wellness Days
• Mental health support – including chat and video therapy
• Pension contribution
• Private healthcare
• Enhanced family leave package

SEEN Group

We are excited to be working with a highly successful creative communications and branding agency who are looking for an outgoing and highly dedicated Creative Director.

The agency is a small, fun and highly ambitious agency with global clients and are looking for a smart, upbeat creative, with proven all-round creative experience. This leadership role will not only work directly with clients, but also have responsibility for the company’s overall creative strategy. You will lead the creative team, work alongside management on company creative strategy and also be hands on with clients, both existing and prospective.

Responsibilities

• Drive creative excellence
• Oversea Creative Strategy
• Work closely with wider agency on creative output
• Lead and mentor the creative team
• Support New Business Team on pitches and presentations
• Oversee recruitment for the team, including freelancers
• Develop and maintain Client relationships
• Use commerciality in all decisions

Experience

• Proven senior creative level experience in an agency environment
• An all-rounder who has experience in brand building and developing comms campaign concepts
• Corporate client experience is preferred (b2b)
• High level of campaign experience
• Team Management experience

Profile

• A smart and charismatic creative leader
• Hard working and enthusiastic
• A conceptual and strategic thinker
• Highly motivated and a self-starter
• Ability to gain respect from team and clients

The company works on a hybrid model, ideally 3 days in the office in central London. There is also flexi-time and a range of excellent benefits including private healthcare.

£80-90K

Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd

Central London, 3 days a week

About the Company:

We are working with a PE-Backed media and entertainment company with a focus on acquiring and integrating other companies to expand its portfolio of content and services. Their mission is to provide exceptional entertainment experiences for audiences worldwide.

Job Description:

The Interim FP&A Director will be responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis function for the company, including the management of forecasting, budgeting, and reporting processes. This individual will also play a key role in evaluating potential acquisition targets and providing financial analysis and support for the company’s overall growth strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the financial planning and analysis function for the company, including the management of forecasting, budgeting, and reporting processes.
• Provide financial analysis and support for the company’s overall growth strategy, including the evaluation of potential acquisition targets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement financial models and tools to support decision-making and strategic planning.
• Provide financial analysis and support for the company’s overall growth strategy, including the evaluation of potential acquisition targets.
• Prepare and present financial reports and analysis to management and stakeholders.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the FP&A function.

Qualifications:

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA Qualified
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably within the media and entertainment industry.
• Strong understanding of financial modelling and forecasting techniques.
• Experience evaluating potential acquisition targets and providing financial analysis and support for growth strategy.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and other financial analysis software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

If you feel you match the criteria, please apply.

Finatal

Creative Director

£60,000 – £70,000 per annum

Manchester, Northwest

We’re working with a multi award winning Creative & Design agencies based in the Northwest, who create visually stunning campaigns for some of the biggest brands across the globe.

They’ve opened the opportunity for a Creative Director to join their team and to be a part of the ever-growing creative department that invests time and energy into some of the most innovate designs across the most influential brands.

At the core, they understand the importance of culture in enabling you to do your best work. Progress is possible for everyone that joins them. The company reward ambition, invest in talent, and encourage you to forge your own path.

The Creative Director will bring a mix of marketing expertise and inspirational creativity to take organisation’s creative output to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Creative Strategists and our Fan Intelligence department to conduct internal and external creative workshops to collaboratively develop insight driven creative campaigns.
• Bring to life ambitious creative ideas, translating them into compelling print materials, digital experiences, and content experiences for visually sophisticated audiences
• Present, or oversee presentation of final concepts, inspiring our clients to purchase.
• Be an agency expert in creative market trends, visual communication, and the competitive landscape to inspire everyone in the agency to produce great work.
• Supervise a cross-functional team of graphic designers, copywriters, social media experts, photographers/videographers, and project managers in the strategic development of creative campaign messaging and deliverables.
• Review and approve art and copy developed by the team, ensuring deliverables that effectively address marketing goals and challenges.
• Build a world class team of internal and external creative resources to ensure that our creative is brilliantly executed.

Skills & Experience

• At least 10 years related experience with 7+ years of creative direction in an agency or In-house setting.
• Several years of experience creating marketing/advertising campaigns from developing vision and the message platform to overseeing production.
• Understanding and experience creating integrated campaigns across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, but also understand offline and print.
• A passion for youth culture, specifically in gaming, esports, sport and music. Across the mainstream, next gen and counter-culture.
• Proven experience with concept development led by strategic insight.
• Highly skilled with leading a team of creative talent.
• Strong creative vision with an understanding of business objectives.
• Inspirational knowledge of creative marketing.
• Would be beneficial to have knowledge of gaming and esports

If you have the skills, experience and attributes for this role, then please get in contact with me today on 0161 388 8502 / 07799310387 or send your CV to [email protected]

The Talent Crowd

ENTERTAINMENT X GAMING SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER

Passionate about Gaming? We’re looking to hire a new Senior Account Manager. We are looking for a Gaming expert with strong Gaming partnership experience activating TTL campaigns that include talent, content, PR and experiential.

This is a great opportunity to join our exciting and award winning agency in the passion marketing sector.

At M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment you’ll have the opportunity to work with clients such as; adidas, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Ballantine’s, Boiler Room, Barclaycard, Absolut, Heineken and many more. From live events and festivals, to pop ups and social content, you’ll work on it all!

About Us

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is a creative leader in the passion marketing sector, we connect brands to a diverse range of consumers through the things they love. We deliver award-winning campaigns for a number of leading brands globally, regionally and within individual markets.

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants who meet the specific requirements will receive consideration for employment without regard to background or protected characteristic, under the Equality Act 2010. We celebrate difference in the broadest sense; rooted in our belief that diversity of thought is a creative necessity.

ABOUT THE JOB

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Account Manager to work with blue-chip clients in the gaming sector and partnering with some of the biggest music brands and organisations in the world. You’ll be an intrinsic part of the team enabling us to deliver exceptional work in UK Entertainment.

You’ll have experience across brand activations, events, experiential, social, PR. You’ll have a strong campaign planning background, project and team management and music industry partnership know how, alongside a proven track record of steering and leading clients to successful outcomes.

As a Senior Account Manager on the Entertainment Team, you’ll be responsible for the efficient day-to-day management of some of our biggest clients. You are the central component in the team, reporting into our Senior Account Director ensuring the smooth running of all campaigns with the long-standing partnerships. You display strong skills in collaborating with the team and across clients and partners.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

Status (Internal & Clients): contributing to the daily team’s internal and client status meetings for key updates, chasing teams for anything outstanding.

Reporting: Lead in content plans/ track-listings and key information required for any reporting. Coordinating information sourcing with partners and local markets

Finance: Updating and reviewing cost trackers on a weekly basis and preparing for monthly reconciliations; completing expenses in time

Deadlines: Setting deadlines with ADs and clients

Timesheets: Ensuring all timesheets are completed accurately and weekly

TEAM MANAGEMENT:

Coordination: appoint and reviewing all deliverables given to AEs and SAEs, Keep all members of the team up-to-date with account work and ensure that regular internal status meetings are arranged, keeping your AD’s informed

Support: Listening to and guiding any concerns AEs and SAEs have with task development

Establish Strong Relationships: Display strong working relationships with your team

On-Boarding: Leading new team, creative and supplier onboarding for client business and campaign

CAMPAIGN EXECUTION:

Timeline: Creating detailed timelines and ensuring campaign is on track to delivery, any major delays to be flagged to ADs and BDs proactively. Managing client expectations on deliverables required.

Ideation: Proactivity in adding value at all stages for the campaign life cycle; through strategic guidance, having ideas, research, commercial and process streamlining

Creative Briefing & Feedback: writing briefs and requests for creative teams and strategists that are coordinate with S15 for booking against the timeline. Managing client and internal feedback to progress ideas

Document Writing: Structure a proposal deck and clearly walk clients through a complex campaign – driving simplicity in selling in the idea

Partner Management: Seeking support and requirements of the right partners to deliver ideas

Asset Management: Creating an overview of assets required and ensuring all provided by team and partners

Event On Site: presence at all events, managing clients, suppliers, production depending on role assigned

PR & MEDIA MANAGEMENT:

Contacts: Demonstrate a thorough contact list at key music and lifestyle titles

Drive Editorial Opportunities: Manage and drive rich editorial opportunities including exclusives, interviews and features

Managing Paid Media: Navigate and negotiate the best rates for paid media opportunities

KPI Target Overview: Monitoring and providing weekly updates to clients on targets met

Reporting: Aware of all coverage from initial sell in to delivery and oversee the reporting process

SOCIAL & DIGITAL:

Contacts: Demonstrate a thorough understanding of social media platforms and the digital landscape, coordinate requests or new briefs with channel account managers

KPIS: Setting targets and objectives in digital to review with ADs; constantly monitoring platforms and partners in achieving this

Influencer Relationships: Establish long-term influencer relationships to put forward for campaigns

Reporting: Leading in the reporting process and review to ensure everyone is clear on deliverables met

COMMUNICATION:

Written (Internal and Client): clear written next steps on emails, quick responsiveness on slack and clarity of writing ideas into deck format provided by clients/ senior team

Verbal (Internal and Client): confidence and simplicity in explaining next steps and ideas over phone calls and in-person meetings

Promptness & Management: Owning relationship with mid-level clients (brand managers) to be point of contact on requests

CREATIVITY, INDUSTRY AND COMPETITOR INSIGHT:

Research: Become immersed in the competitor landscape and creative industry, developing a broad knowledge of the industry outside of your specialism, sharing it with the internal teams and clients

Active Contribution: Offer ideas and contribute to brainstorms and share media news and related topics relevant to the client – it is important to show interest and proactivity

APPROACH:

Lead by example: show and tell those who are supporting how it’s done and create a proactive approach in all that you do

The ability to both identify and solve problems before your AD’s or clients do (when highlighting a problem always have a view of what a solution might be)

Thinking ahead and have your clients and brands front of mind

Go above and beyond to demonstrate your commitment to your accounts and to push yourself towards new achievements

Contribute to the culture of the business

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes private healthcare, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including free breakfast and lunch, subsided gym membership, whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment London

Excellent opportunity for a highly conceptual Senior Art Director to take on the role of Creative Director and join this fast growing creative, integrated marketing agency and help shape and develop the creative team.

Big Ideas. Conceptualist. Leader.

As a successful Creative Director, these are some of the key words that should describe you whenever anyone thinks of you!

This particular client is a well established, small, creative agency that focuses on digital and is growing.

Our client is now seeking an experienced Conceptual Senior Art Director to come on board and help shape, develop and mentor the creative teams and take them to next stage in their growth and help them win awards!

To be suitable for this role as Creative Director you will have the following skills and attributes:

• You might be a Senior Art Director or Head of Design with a desire to make the step up, or a Creative Director in an agency ready to take on more.
• Very strong conceptualist experience both visual and copy based
• Breakthrough work – we need to see that you’ve got great ideas and can work with and inspire people around you create great campaigns.
• Demonstrable passion for making brands and campaigns meaningful, by creating strong campaign positions that inspire businesses to engage, and ultimately buy
• Love working with people. Positivity, looking for ways to say ‘yes’
• Happy to ‘do’ the work, but equally happy to step back and guide, praise and nurture
• Principles. Honest & straightforward.
• MUST have a strong background and a proven track record in managing and developing mid sized teams

In return for your skills and experience our client offers a salary banding ranging between £60-70k plus generous benefits – company bonus, private medical and gym subsidy plus a fantastic working environment.

If you’d like to join an agency that is different and doesn’t follow the rules then drop me a line, Natasha Kenny today by clicking on the apply button below.

Jefferson Talent Group

Paid Social Manager role across a huge entertainment / film client.

This role is at a London based international media agency.

Focus is brand-led campaigns across key UK / European markets.

Salary is to £45,000 + benefits. Based Central London with remote working / WFH options.

Role Summary

This is a strategic role that covers media planning and buying in Paid Social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

Attuned to pop culture and a genuine fan of the entertainment industry, the ideal candidate will enjoy the challenge of investigating what drives people to tune-in and talk about the next must-watch movie — and planning/executing paid social media campaigns to fulfil these objectives accordingly.

Experience

• Relevant experience in Paid Social

• Excellent client facing skills, with practiced presentation, communication, and analytical skills

• Experience working in a media team, within a full service agency

• Passion for entertainment

• Strong knowledge of film / entertainment vertical

• Have strong organisational skills, with ability to manage multiple projects at once

• Hands on approach and passion for working in a fast-paced team

• Ability to motivate and lead a team and manage up

• Proven experience in managing

• Experience in working on regional or global accounts

• Maintain gravitas, forward thinking and strategic initiative

• Fully conversant with digital media and able to think across the whole media mix

Silverdrum

Overview

A fantastic opportunity to join an established Midlands based creative agency within the creative communication/events industry, at a time of exciting growth and transformation.

This permanent, full-time Creative Director position is offered on a hybrid basis.

Salary on offer is between £60-65k, dependent on experience.

The Role

The role of Creative Director will play an integral part in the business growth and expansion of the team to support a global client base.

Playing a vital role in the strategy, creation, and delivery of global projects. The Creative Director will spearhead and manage the design and conceptualisation, collaborating with internal teams and acting as brand guardian on a range of 360-degree creative outputs.

The Company

An established agency in the heart of the Midlands with a drive to think outside the box. This agency has a multi-industry customer portfolio and a drive to expand their global reach.

About You

You will be a Senior Designer / Creative Lead with both the experience of managing, mentoring and developing a team as well as being a hands-on leader who has the knowledge and skill sets to concept, design and produce a range of design solutions across the events, conference and exhibitions industries. You will be looking for the step up to the role of Creative Director and are hungry to make your mark in a growing team and business.

You will have the emotional intelligence to inspire and lead a team as well as deliver multiple projects across multi-channel outputs.

You will be a Senior Designer with excellent hands-on design skills across multiple design software, alongside excellent conceptual skills and the ability to support your concepts by giving strong, strategic reasoning for your ideas, to both clients and internal directors alike.

If you can show and tell and lead and inspire your team to excellence, then we want to hear from you!

Beyond The Book

Do you want to work on an exciting tech event? Do you want to work on the buggest event out there? If so keep reading to hear about the role of an Exhibition Event Manager

The client:

A purpose driven company focused on building the world’s biggest platform and community for Inspiration, Impact and Transformational Change. A social media platform and festival for global change makers. They offer the world’s biggest Festival of Inspiration, Impact and Transformational Change with up to 90,000 people, 10 stages, 1000+ speakers, 1000 expo stands. Covering 10 Programme Tracks from AI/DeepTech, Global Leadership, Future of Energy, Start up Innovation/IPO to Health and the Global Economy.

The role of an Exhibition Event Manager:

• Floor plan production and management
• Liaise with internal teams including marketing and commercial
• Work with contractors, suppliers and exhibitors
• Design and produce feature areas
• Health & Safety management
• Supplier liaison and negotiating fees
• Budget management
• Produce on site information including staff briefings, exhibitor lists, floor plans etc

About you:

• Minimum 3 years in exhibition event management
• Able to manage multiple projects
• Great communication skills

Apply now for the role of Exhibition Event Manager

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Open casting for BBC-backed short film

We are casting for real groups of male + non-binary identifying friends for an exciting BBC-backed short film. This can be 2 real mates or more. Based anywhere in England.

You do not need to be an actor to apply. Open to all levels of experience.

About the mates:

Male / Non-binary friends 16 -21 years old, African, Caribbean or MENA heritage.

• Streetwise kids living in the suburbs, who ride bikes & party. They are boisterous lot, but fundamentally good and innocent.
• A group of mates who are incredibly close and have an unspoken bond.

Professionally paid if you land the role. 

Must be 16 years or over to apply. If you are under 18 years a parent or guardian must apply for your group on your behalf.

We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting.